Capitalism

If a student wants to attend a university and that university has requirements, the student shouldn't be surprised upon being expelled after breaking the rules. The university, if private, has a right (in my opinion) to accept and educate whomever it pleases. If it wishes to accept only women or only one-legged circus victims, then so be it. Many judge such discrimination as unfair or unreasonable, and they might be right - but that doens't necessarily call for legislation.

I see private universities or companies as extentions of the individual. If I liked the color green and decided to invest large sums of money into companies with that color in their logo, that is my right. If I band together with a handful of others and we decide to establish a college centered on the color green and only to admit those with a green tattoos or a significant green wardrobe, we should be allowed. Of course, the requirements for accreditation should be applied consistently and there is nothing to say that the government would have to give the school money - or that people would actually enroll - or that corporations would respect the education of the graduates. In fact, it is probable that the outside funding and respect involved would be what you would expect given the strange enrollment criteria: very poor.

My point is that it should be left up to the person or organization to decide what they do with their funds or the businesses and institutions which they run (without infringing on Constitutional rights, of course). Instead, the government feels the pressure of its constituents, who seem to want the government to force everyone to treat them the way they want to be treated. This, of course, results in a large and generally ineffective government that relies not upon the principles of reason and representative democracy, but on the whims and fleeting wishes of the populous.

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